Before buying anything, it is well to ask if one could do without it.

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee.

Art trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.

Our own happiness ought not to be our main objective in life.

Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.

Many savage nations worship trees, and I really think my first feeling would be one of delight and interest rather than of surprise, if some day when I am alone in the woods one of the trees were to speak to me.

Reading and writing, arithmetic and grammar do not constitute education, any more than a knife, fork and spoon constitute a dinner.